NASSCOM empowers women through Mobile Apps

New Delhi, India, June 20, 2013: National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has released the winners of the All India App Fame Contest 2013. The theme for this year “Collaborating forces for Women Safety” aimed at creating solutions for women of industry who constitute about 30% of and for all in society. NASSCOM invited application from interested Students, developers and corporates to design Apps around women safety. The basic utility behind the apps was to help women in a distressed situation, and work as an Emergency response tool, raise an alarm, crises communication or even repelling perpetrators.

Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM, said, “Women have constituted a significant workforce of the IT industry which has set the benchmark for global practices around recruiting, retaining and retraining women. To ensure their safety and security; the industry, government, and law enforcement agencies need to come together and partner to devise appropriate measures. I am extremely pleased with the innovation that we have seen in these apps that focus on women safety.

It is a priority for the industry to provide a safe experience to women in the working environment. Taking this thought further, NASSCOM had announced an AppFame contest early this year. Corporate, developers and students were encouraged to build technology applications for women safety. Out of the several applications received, 10 best were filtered by a group of jury members.